Feank knobeloch



FfKNoBE-Loon.

Paper-Box.

Ptented Mar. 2,1880.

No."225,0l3.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

FRANK KNOBELOOH, OF BUFFALO, NEW YORK.

PAPER BOX.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 225,013, dated March 2, 1880.

' Application filed September 3, 1879.

To all whom it may concern Be it known that I, FRANK KNOBELOCH, of Buffalo, in the county of Erie and State of New York, have invented certain new and useful Improvements on a Paper Box; and l do hereby declare that the following description of my said invention, taken in connection with the accompanying sheetof drawings, forms a full, clear, and exact specification, which will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same.

This invention has general reference to paper boxes and it consists in the peculiar arrangement of parts and details of construction, as hereinafter firstfnlly set forth and described, and then pointed out in the claim.

In the drawings already referred to, and which form apart of this specification, Figure l is a perspective view of my improved paper box. Fig. 2 is a plan of the blank-from which said box is produced.

Like parts are designated bycorrespondin g letters of reference in all the figures.

This box is constructed of a card or paste board blank (illustrated in Fig. 2).consisting of the main body A and eight portions or flaps, B B, O U, D D, and E E, respectively. 'Of these flaps those designated by the-letters B B, D D; and O ,0 are of a length and width corresponding to the width and depth of the box to be produced, while those designated by the letters E E are as wide as the box, but slightly shorter than its depth. The flaps G C have crescent-shaped openings G, while the flaps E are shaped intoa elover-leafor trefoil, F, having the neck 0 and the opposite cuspsf f, the latter serving as hooks to engage the crescentshaped openings G, as hereinafter to be referred to.

I produce the blank A entire by suitablyconstructed male and female dies in the process of punching, creasing it atthe same time in all the places where it is afterward to be folded or kinked. This folding may be done either in the factory Where the boxes are made, or the blanks may be sold to the trade in a flat state, leaving it to the trader to'form the blank into a tube, and afterward closing both perforated flaps O and these cusps, forming books, will securely close the end of the box and retain the partsin proper position, so as to preclude the possibility of its opening accidentally during shipping or handling.

For convenience in carrying this box I provide the same with a ribbon, H, which is, with its ends, securely fixed to the flaps E E, and thus accomplishes the desired object in a convenient manner.

It is evident that in larger packing-boxes more than one of the trefoils and crescentshaped apertures may be provided, so as to guard againsttearin g of the parts when the box is filled, and I have illustrated in Fig. 1 a box having the flap E provided with two trefoils and the flap O with a corresponding nunr ber of crescent-shaped openings;

Having thus fully described my invention, I claim as new and desire to secure to me by a Patent As an improved article of manufacture, apaper box or package composed of a blank, A, having the flaps B B, O G, D D, and E E, said flaps O 0 being provided with crescentshaped apertures G, and the flaps E E shaped into trefoils. the whole being folded as described, and the trefoils engaging the crescent-shaped apertures, substantially as and for the ob ect specified.

In testimony that I claim the foregoing as my invention I have hereto set my hand and affixed my seal in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

r. KNOBELOGH. 1,. s.]

Attest:

MICHAEL J. STARK, FRANK HIRscH. 

